Tuesday Valve Software said that its Steam distribution platform has been upgraded with the SILK voice codec, the same codec that was developed and is currently in use by Skype. Starting now, support will automatically be included in the Steam client once it's loaded or restarted.

"SILK provides a significant improvement to Steam's voice chat quality," Valve said in a brief email. "Steam voice chat is available both in one-on-one or group chats, and works both at the desktop as well as while a user is in game."

I'm glad to see steam always improving, especially since they could sit back on their throne and reap in the money as all the other digital distributes are way behind them.

Wouldve liked to see them put the codec into their old valve games, but its obvious why they wont, and honestly I've never really used the steam call feature except to annoy people or get their attention :x